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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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or two months. Even with-out placing the stems in water, usingthem for motto work, they will last twoor three weeks. And this is but one of Floridas novel-ties in plant life. Mary Stratner. 187 THE RIVER PATH. Theres a path beside the river,Winding through the willow copse Where I love to walk in autumnEre the seasons curtain drops. On far hillsides beech and maple,Touched by earlv nipping frost. Have their brown and crimson jacketsTo the boisterous breezes tossed. Still the willow leaves are clinging. Latest foliage of fall.Shading yet my river pathway Underneath the osiers tall. On the wimpling waters surfaceDrift a million truant leaves. Stolen from the woodland reachesBy the wind, the orince of thieves. All along the river edges Verdures turned to brown and gray.Rustling through the dying sedges Autumns low voiced breezes play. Nowhere sweeter walk or rarerThan my path beside the stream. There I love to stroll in autumn.There to loiter and to dream. -Frank Farrington. 188 \ Hi i h
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EGG PLANT. (Solanum esculentum. L. The Egg-plant, also known as bringal,aubergine, egg-apple and mad-apple, isan herbaceous plant belonging to theNightshade family (Solananae), thereforekin to the potato and tomato. It is atender annual, readily killed by the earlyfrosts. It has rather large, simple, some-what incised leaves. The fruits are large,egg-shaped, tomato-like in structure,hence berries. It is quite extensively cultivated ingardens. The seeds are sown in hot bedsearly in April but transplanting is notdone until about the first of June, whenall danger of frost is past. The soilshould be very rich and the plants setabout three feet apart. Like most trans-planted plants they require shading andwatering for a few days. Careful culti-vation is required during the entire sea-son. Propping may be necessary to keepthe large, heavy fruits from the ground. The Colorado beetle is a very annoyingenemy of the growing plants atid must beeffectually fought to insure a crop. There are sever

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